Leftist guerrillas hijacked a...

A CHICKEN IN EVERY POT.

September 9, 1987

LIMA, PERU — A CHICKEN IN EVERY POT. Leftist guerrillas hijacked a truck carrying thousands of chickens to market on Tuesday and handed out the birds to poor people in a shantytown near Lima. ''This is an expropriation of what belongs to the people,'' witnesses quoted the leader of the guerrillas as saying. The MRTA, a Marxist group responsible for bombings of the Sheraton hotel and the offices of Citibank in Lima, has in the past hijacked trucks carrying food and sweets to hand out to the poor.